Richard+Stallman

=Richard Stallman =  A.K.A "RMS" was born March 15, 1935, in New York, New York. In this first year of Harvard University he became a programmer at thee [|AI Laboratory] of [|MIT]. Ever since then he came a regular in the hacker community. As a hacker at MIT's AI laboratory, he worked on software projects like [|TECO], [|Emacs], and the [|Lisp Machine] Operating System.

= GNU Project =  In September of 1982 Stallman announced the plan for the [|GNU operating system] ion several [|ARPAnet] mailing lists. Then in 1985, he published the [|GNU Manifesto], and it outlined his motivation for creating the free operating system, GNU, which would be compatible with [|Unix]. The name GNU is a recursive acronym for GNU's Not Unix. Later he started a non-profit corporation called the [|Free Software Foundation] to employ free software programmers and provide a legal infrastructure for the [|free software movement]. 1989 the first program-independent [|GNU General Public License] (GPL) was released. By this time much of the GNU system had been completed. He was responsible for contributing many necessary tools, which included a text editor, compiler, debugger, and a build automator. In 1990, members of the GNU project began a kernel called [|GNU Hurd]. He has had a long controversy with the free software community. He says that not using "GNU" in the name of the operating system unfairly disparages the value of the [|GNU project] and harms the sustainability of the free software movement by breaking the link between the software and the free software philosophy of the GNU project. Stallman's influences on hacker culture. On [|UNIX] systems, [|GNU Emacs]'s popularity rivaled that of another editor [|vi].he take on this was to jokingly canonize himself as "St. IGNUcius" of the [|Church of Emacs] and acknowledge that "vi vi vi is the [|editor of the beast]," while "using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance." Many developers view him as being difficult to work with from a political, interpersonal, or technical standpoint.During 1992, developers at [|Lucid Inc.] doing their own work on Emacs clashed with him and ultimately [|forked] the software. Their fork later became [|XEmacs]. Drepper accuses Stallman of attempting a "hostile takeover" of the project, referring to him as a "control freak and raging maniac." He sometimes claims to speak for parts of the [|open source] movement, has written many pieces laying out that movement's disagreement with Stallman and the [|free software movement], often in terms sharply critical of Stallman

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